For the latter part of Monday’s scrimmage, Metta World Peace was working with the Knicks’ starting five — alongside Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler in the frontcourt. Imported forward Andrea Bargnani was switched to the second unit despite starting throughout the preseason

Believe it or not, Charles Barkley really likes the Knicks. But only on one condition. “If things are going well I think they’ll be fine,” Barkley says. “But if things are going bad they could implode.”

One comment on “Knicks Morning News (Tuesday, Oct 29 2013)”

I really like the way Woodson is handling decisions on who should start and who should play what minutes and such. Rather than deciding imperiously, he let’s players try out the roles they might expect to get, but then he judges on actual performance. Bargnani was a started in Toronto and MWP was a backup in LA, and they started out in those roles. But they each got enough playing time that now if Woodson decides to start MWP instead, he can cite actual shooting percentages and other data to explain his decision. And Woodson takes his time to decide and gets a lot of experience in on how each one plays. He might well have known a long time ago he might want to start MWP, but by waiting until now, the players will all feel they got a fair shot. It’s much different and better than D’Antoni, who seemed to make unexplained decisions, or Larry Brown, who changed starters every day.